Have not made an entry for 8 days because of our vacation at Cleveland's House in Muskoka. The hills were amazing and plentiful, what a wonderful vacation and running was only a fraction of what took place.
Saturday June 27th.
We got there last Saturday and I had a little window to go and run before dinner which I wanted to do so I could enjoy dinner and the first night, I felt pretty good after the day before running 24 miles but on this run I felt very sluggish and it was a struggle because I was not used to the hills, I only did 5 miles but of course felt awesome for dinner and our first night.
Sunday 28th - feeling pretty sore from the long run and in hind sight should have not ran Saturday, decided to skip the run in the morning that I usually do at Cleve's and golf with my wife after dropping the kids off at kids camp. Glad we got the golf in because it rained hard all day, I managed getting a total of 7 miles in at the gym on the resort. Oh ya I ran 4 miles easy 730 pace then picked it up to 625's, I had to get off because I looked at myself in the mirror and I was white as a ghost, puked and then got back on the tm and did an easy mile and had to stop. I was also sick later that night so I had something but was fine the next day. 7 miles total.
Monday 29th - We booked golf on Mon and Thur so I thought to myself another day with no real good running but luckly we were back in time to do a run before picking the kids up at the their camp. This turned into a great run, I planned on 6 miles but ended up finding a new route and ran 11.5 miles and the hills on this route were massive, I was so impressed. There were multiple hills but 3 of them were half a mile long and the grade was 3-7, just fantastic. I managed to feel better the last half and run 7:28 average for the run, I really did not want to push it too hard because of the right side that is still bugging me. However 7:30's is more like running 6:30's with all the hills.
Tuesday 30th - 16 miles total. Great run, same as yesterday but longer. Felt again better as the run went on. Played tennis for about 2 hours and Josh and I won the doubles competition against everyone, fun. Won 2 rounds of poker and had a great water ski and swim in the lake. What a day.
Wed July 1st - Raining again and I was really feeling beat up from all the hills so I decided to take it easy in the gym. Of course I decided to do some speed work at the last second. 3 miles @ 5:52, half a mile cool down at 640 pace then finished another 1.5 miles at 552 pace with a cool down at the end for 7.5 miles total.
Thur 2nd - sore from the speed so I ended up running 3 miles easy just to burn some calories before dinner. Also had a round of golf booked at a resort which left little time to run.
Fri 3rd - G arrived thursday so I took him on a hill run, he was shocked and I had to force him a little to see the massive hill, ended up running 11 miles total, great run. Skied later and played some tennis.
Saturday - 8 miles with G, easy at first, really slow and then had a tempo at the last 2 miles, more down hill the last 1.5 so I took off not knowing G was trying to take me over, he caught me by surprise so I stepped into high gear and ended up running a 5:24 min mile, the mile before that was 6:01. We had a dip in the lake, played the little 9 hole course then played some tennis.
Sunday - drove home and did 5 miles on the TM, MP.
This was a great vacation, I have only mentioned the running and activities but the best part was all the things we did as a family, tons of fishing, meals together, boating etc etc. This is by far the best vacation that we look forward to every year.
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